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eppur_se_muova

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7. Maybe not as bad as some of us want it to look ....
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:45 AM
21 hrs ago

As a facultative vegetarian, I know there's no real need to be eating as much meat as Americans eat, and all that meat protein mostly goes to waste. Billions of people get by quite well on beans, lentils, and other legumes as their principal sources of protein -- which impose a much smaller environmental burden as well.

Having said all that, no one should be FORCED in that direction because of economic pressure brought on by a PEDOTUS who doesn't know shit about economics, in theory or in practice, and couldn't run a taco stand at a profit to save his life.

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